San Francisco County Biographies
JOHN KEOGH
Transcribed Karen L. Pratt.
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Deceased, who was a resident of San Francisco for eighteen years,
during all of which time he was engaged in the wholesale upholstery business,
was born in Ireland in August, 1846, and at an early age came with his parents
to Canada, where he received his education in the schools of Georgetown. At the
age of twenty-three years he removed to Chicago, where he commenced learning the
wholesale upholstery business in the establishment of his uncle, William H.
Keogh, the millionaire upholsterer and business man of Chicago. After remaining
in that city five years, and becoming a master of his business, Mr. Keogh came
to the Pacific coast, settling in San Francisco, where he at once engaged in the
manufactory and sale of all species of upholstery goods and materials. He did
not take an active part in politics, except as is required of any good citizen,
but was perhaps as well and favorably known as any business man in the city. He
died November 24, 1889.
Mr. Keogh was married in 1879 to Miss Marie E. Keogh, a native of Clare county,
Ireland , and a daughter of Thomas Keogh, a merchant of Killaloe, Clare county.
She was the grandaughter of Dr. William Nihill, a celebrated physician and
surgeon of that county, who was succeeded by four sons, all prominent physicians
in that part of Ireland. Mr. Keogh had a family of ten children, of whom six
are now living. He left his family in good circumstances financially. The San
Francisco News-Letter publishes the following: �His death was heard of with
great regret by those who knew him. No kinder-hearted man ever lived, and no
man was more ready to help a friend. Of a genial and happy temperament, he was
always ready, by some kind act or word, to help others share in his sunny
nature.�
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 584-585, Lewis Publishing Co,
1892.